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Article: Gender and Politics in Austrian Fiction.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 1999
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Gender and Politics in Austrian Fiction. Ed. by RITCHIE ROBERTSON and EDWARD TIMMS. (Austrian Studies, 7) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1996. xi + 220 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].
In the first two contributions to this volume, Jeffrey Sammons and Ritchie Robertson reach different conclusions as to what extent America serves Charles Sealsfield and Ferdinand Kurnberger respectively as an exotic perspective on Europe. Sealsfield's admiration of American Republicanism might suggest an intention to hold up a democratic model to a European public, but it went along with a Jacksonian emphasis on property and an increasing readiness to defend slavery. Moreover ...